Kauṣītaki (Śāṅkhāyana) Brāhmaṇa 25.7.28

25.7.28

ā satyo yātu maghavān ṛjīṣī ity ekaviṃśatis tās trayoviśaṃtiḥ /

xxv. 8. Then (the computation) of Kauṣītaki. It is the same up to the beginning of the litany. If one removes the Bṛhat and the Rathantara, the Ṛjujanitrīya (is used); eleven (verses) of it (are used, if the Bṛhat is performed) on its own basis, nine otherwise, with the symbol (of this day) in ‘Now allotting the forms, now the works one goeth.’ ‘O Indra, come hither with thy bays’, (these) are fifteen verses, with the symbol (of this day) in ‘With those of fair form do thou come to us’. Having recited eleven (verses) of (the hymn of) Baru or of the ‘All-bay’ hymn, (he recites) a Nivid in the middle of the hundred and one verses; having recited fifty-one he recites the two (remaining verses) of the Baru (hymn) or of the ‘All-bay’ (hymn). ‘May the true one come hither, the generous, he of the Soma lees’, (these) are twenty-one verses. These make up